04-19-2016, 11:05 AM
1989 sidekick, 2 door,4wd, 8v.
Just got this sidekick from my neighbor who blew the engine his first time wheeling it. Hydrolocked the engine, then threw the #1 connecting rod through the side of the block. My father and I just got done installing a salvage yard engine in fairly good shape. It would always run really erratic, even when the neighbor had it. Then yesterday I noticed an erratic clicking coming from the dash while messing around with it. It was almost like a relay click. Reached my arm under the dash and noticed that if I push up on the ecu connector then it suddenly runs good. I only had some old fuses around so I stuck the fuse blades under the plug to keep constant pressure on it. The car runs beautiful now. I guess my question is should I just leave the fuse/wedge in there? Are replacement pins for the plug available anywhere? Could the problem be in ecu itself? The plug looked good visually.
Thanks in advance.
Just got this sidekick from my neighbor who blew the engine his first time wheeling it. Hydrolocked the engine, then threw the #1 connecting rod through the side of the block. My father and I just got done installing a salvage yard engine in fairly good shape. It would always run really erratic, even when the neighbor had it. Then yesterday I noticed an erratic clicking coming from the dash while messing around with it. It was almost like a relay click. Reached my arm under the dash and noticed that if I push up on the ecu connector then it suddenly runs good. I only had some old fuses around so I stuck the fuse blades under the plug to keep constant pressure on it. The car runs beautiful now. I guess my question is should I just leave the fuse/wedge in there? Are replacement pins for the plug available anywhere? Could the problem be in ecu itself? The plug looked good visually.
Thanks in advance.